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Italy Scores Big in the European Film Award Nominations

11 November 2008 4:35 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

The Italian films Il Divo and Gomorra hogged the spotlight at Saturday's announcement of the European Film Award nominations, with five nods apiece, including best picture. "But wait," you might be saying if you're not European. "Why do the European Film Awards matter to me? I'm not European!"

They matter because you love foreign films, that's why. Ok, and also because the EFAs often presage the Academy Awards. Recent Efa best picture winners have included such Oscar-scented titles as The Lives of Others, Talk to Her, Amelie, and Dancer in the Dark. Gomorra -- which is apparently about skinny underwear models who shoot guns at the beach -- has been submitted as Italy's Oscar hopeful and now seems like a surefire nominee, thanks to its Efa attention. The other Efa best picture nominees are The Class (France's Oscar submission), Waltz with Bashir (Israel's submission), Happy-Go-Lucky (whose star, Sally Hawkins, has

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Eric D. Snider

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Denver Film Festival announces full lineup

27 October 2008 6:26 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Finally a film festival near me, and it actually has some flicks I've been looking forward to seeing, but first off, I'm in Northern Colorado, so if you're going to Dff and would like to meet up, talk genre film, or just rip on Hollywood crap, drop me a line via our contact link at the bottom of the page. Dff runs November 13-23 at the Starz film center in Denver which is one of the only places which plays real films (I go there to do reviews of limited theatrical release stuff).

Of the highlights which include a bunch of dreary Cannes dramas, the one I would recommend most would be David Prior's Lovecraftian horror short AM1200. I just saw it this past Friday and it's nothing short of fantastic. Next we have something I want to warn people about, it's the French scifi flick Eden Log, it's incredibly cryptic and boring,

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44 New Pics from 'Body of Lies', 'Hunger' and 'Gomorrah'

26 September 2008 3:11 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: Warner Bros. I just added 44 new pics from three upcoming films, two of which have already received some serious attention and another that seems to be teetering on the edge of good and bad based on the trailers I have seen. All links to the pics open in a new browser window so just close the window to return to this article. The Warner Bros. international thriller Body of Lies starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio directed by Ridley Scott is the questionable one of the bunch since I have yet to be interested by the trailers, but I have just added 29 new pictures from the flick including two character posters. The pics don't do much to sell me on the film, but you be the judge and check all of them out right here. Photo: IFC Films Next up is Hunger from first time director Steve McQueen. This

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Brad Brevet

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The A.V. Club At Tiff '08: Day 7

11 September 2008 7:49 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Gomorrah Director/Country/Time: Matteo Garrone, Italy, 135 min. Cast: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale, Salvatore Cantalupo Program: Special Presentations Headline: The mafia ruins everything Noel's Take: If you've been watching cable TV over the past 10 years, you won't need this sprawling neo-realist portrait of modern Neapolitan organized crime to tell you that being a gangster is neither romantic nor all that lucrative; and you'll probably also be fairly familiar with Gomorrah's depiction of how unchecked criminality can stain every aspect of a community's life. And yet you've probably never seen these points made in quite the way they're made in Gomorrah, a doggedly unglamorous movie that eschews any conventional notion of colorful bad guy "characters." There's no Jimmy The Eel or Billy Knuckles here for us to admire on the sly—just a bunch of self-involved thugs and complicit civilians...

Scott Tobias, Noel Murray

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AFI L.A. Film Festival announces lineup

4 September 2008 4:49 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Danny Ledonne’s documentary “Playing Columbine” is one of 15 films screening at this year’s AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, according to Variety.

“Columbine” chronicles the history of the game “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!” through the 2006 shooting at Dawson College, in which it was mentioned as a major influence on the shooter.

Also premiering at the festival are Fernando Eimbcke’s “Lake Tahoe,” Margarita Jimeno’s “Gogol Bordello Non-Stop” and Rodrigo Pla’s “The Desert Within.”

Here are some other films you’ll be able to catch at the AFI Fest: Paul Schrader’s “Adam Resurrected;” Arnaud Desplechin’s “A Christmas Tale;” Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah;” and Anthony Fabian’s “Skin.”

The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival runs Oct. 30 – Nov. 9, 2008. Click here to check out the official Web site.

Franck Tabouring

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25th Munich Film Festival Awards

30 June 2008 11:09 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Russian director Valeriya Gai Germanika’s “Everybody Dies But Me” picked up the CineVision Award at the 25th edition of the Munich Film Festival. The coming-of-age drama follows three teenagers as they gear up for a party held at their high school.

The Young German Cinema Award for best director went to Timo Müller for “Morscholz,” a drama that follows the lives of seven people in a small German town. Heiko Martens was named best screenwriter for “Narrenspiel,” while Markus Tomczyk won best actor for his role in “Braams.” Susanne Wolff won best actress for “Das Fremde in Mir.”

The Arri-Zeiss Award, the festival’s new prize, went to Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorra,” a look at crime families operating out of Naples. The film also won the grand prize at Cannes last month.

Julie Christie received this year’s CineMerit Award, a prize honoring outstanding personalities in the international film community.

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Franck Tabouring

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Cannes 08: "The Class" Graduates With Honors

27 May 2008 3:49 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival wrapped this past Sunday, having been the scene of big Hollywood premieres like "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and smaller but no less anticipated ones from filmmakers like the Dardenne brothers, Arnaud Desplechin and Atom Egoyan. In the end, it was a French film that won the Palme d'Or . the first homegrown feature to take the top prize since 1987's "Under Satan's Sun." The film, a late entry in the competition, was directed by Laurent Cantet, whose past work includes "Time Out" and "Heading South," and follows a year in the life of a teacher in an inner city Parisian school. Opening remarks from jury Sean Penn, who told the press that "We are going to feel very confident that the filmmaker of [the winning film] was very aware of the times within which he (or she) lives," had many guessing that one

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Alison Willmore

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Surprise Winner At Cannes Film Festival

26 May 2008 10:22 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Director Laurence Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), a film about a year in the life of suburban Parisian students, was the surprise winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday. It marked the first win by a French film at the festival since 1987. Jury president Sean Penn told reporters that the film "just touched us so deeply." Cantet brought the entire cast of 24 teenagers onto the stage with him to accept the award from presenter Robert De Niro -- and brought the entire audience at the Palais des Festivals to its feet. Of the four titles from U.S. filmmakers in the competition, only one received any recognition -- Steven Soderbergh's biopic Che, which garnered the best-actor trophy for Benicio Del Toro, who portrayed the title figure, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. The award could be helpful in securing a distribution deal for the $68-million film, which faces an uphill battle given its 4 1/2-hour length, its controversial subject, and the fact that the dialog is delivered in Spanish. Clint Eastwood's Changeling, which received mostly solid reviews from critics and numerous predictions that it would win the top award, was shut out for major awards, but the jury created a special prize to honor Eastwood's achievement in films. (French actress Catherine Deneuve was also so honored.) Turkey's Nuri Belge Ceylon received the best-director award for his Three Monkeys. Two Italian films also fared well at the festival as Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah won the Grand Prix and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo won the Jury Prize. Brazil's Sandra Corveloni won the best actress award for Linha de Passe and Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who had twice won the Palme d'Or, received the best screenplay award for Le Silence de Lorna.

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8 articles from 2008

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